Baboons Make Trouble for Construction Team

Well, this certainly is a reverse role here. It's rather humorous.

Personally, my opinion is that I'm not in favour of zoos at all. If animals have to be protected, I prefer tracts of land put aside for this purpose that are not enclosed.

Baboons Make Trouble for Construction Team

LIVERPOOL, England (AP) - Zoo officials installed an electric fence around a construction site to protect workers from 120 primate hecklers, an animal park in northern England said Friday.

A band of baboons began screeching and chattering when a team of construction workers commenced work to renovate the primate enclosure at Knowsley Safari Park, close to the city of Liverpool, about 210 miles north of London.

Worried that the baboons would become violent, workers at the animal park - which also houses lions, rhino and elephants - have installed the fence to contain them.

"Because we're effectively in a cage and the animals are free to roam around us, we do feel as though the roles are reversed and we are the exhibit," said Geoff Ames, the construction project manager. "However, we're grateful for the protection." Work to create a new enclosure for the primates will be completed this summer, Ames said.